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Haggling for Asian electronics
MAKE Magazine — ... Unplggd has two articles on shopping for cheap tech in Asian markets and how to haggle down the price on the stuff you want. Do your research. One of the first steps in haggling over a sale in Asia is to do proper research before making a purchase. It's easy to find out what the retail prices and market value prices of items are in Asia beforehand. For example, you can check out the listings on Yahoo! Auctions in Taiwan. I use Google Translate to get an idea what a page says. Yahoo! is really big in Asia, bigger than eBay in ...

Google Translate for Apple iPhone available
I4U News — ... an optimized interface for the Apple iPhone. Google Translate for iPhone is optimized for speed, supports all of the existing Google Translate language pairs, and uses a client-side data-store on your iPhone to hang on to your past translations so you always have them at hand, even if you can't use the local data network. To try Google Translate for iPhone, point your iPhone or iPod Touch web browser to www.google.com and choose the "more" tab. Or you can go directly to translate.google.com in your browser. More details on Google Mobile Blog . Google ...

Google Translate adds new Languages
D' Technology Weblog — ... Google has added 11 new languages to its machine translation service “Google Translate” that totals to 35 supported languages: Catalan, Filipino, Hebrew, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. “In most cases, Google uses English as an intermediary language, so when you translate a text from Indonesian to Vietnamese, Google translates the text to English and then it translates the result to Vietnamese. You’ll get the best results when one of the languages is English, since ...

Google Speech Recognition and Machine Translation
D' Technology Weblog — ... With Google’s technologies for automatic translation and speech recognition, you can translate texts in 35 languages at translate.google.com or use voice to find a local business with GOOG-411. ...

Reviews Translation in Google Maps - Google Translate homepage redesigned
D' Technology Weblog — ... In a related new, Google Translate’s homepage is redesigned and you can now translate text and web pages from the same box. Google Translate includes a new option that swaps the selected languages and the translations for short texts have ...

Google Translate adds new languages; improved english dictionary
D' Technology Weblog — ... Google Translate will soon add seven new languages: Albanian, Estonian, Galician, Hungarian, Maltese, Thai and Turkish. Another change is that the ...

Samsung announces colorful NC310 netbooks, extended battery good for up to 11 hours
CrunchGear — ... (in Korean). You’ll have to manually copy and paste the text into Google Translate to make heads or tails of it, but here’s what it spat out: ...

Se confirman las nuevas Sony Alpha 230, 330 y 380
Gizmología — ... Gracias a una página en la web de Sony en Rusia se sabe estas tres nuevas cámaras, una captura de la web traducida con Google incluida, como prueba. ...

Google Now Translates Uploaded Documents [Translations]
Lifehacker — [image] Google Translate could previously take pasted text or web URLs for translation , and the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer was offering on-the-fly translation. Now Google's made it easy to put desktop documents through its multi-language processing. Hit "Upload a document" on the Translate main page, and you'll be prompted to upload Word documents, PowerPoint presentation files, PDFs, HTML files, or straight-up text files. All of them are transformed into HTML and translated to your language of choice. That means you lose any special formatting, of course, but ...

Google Translate gets phonetic translation and more
Download Squad — ... Google Translate just got a lot better, with a nice, clean new look and several new features. The first thing you'll notice is that you no longer have to click to translate. Translate now works instantly, as you type. If you're trying to translate something into a language with a non-Roman alphabet (like Chinese, for example) Google will also show the phonetic pronunciation underneath the translated characters. If you're translating into English, you've got an even better option: you can hear an audio pronunciation of the English translation. This feature is ...